Abstract
Anurans, along with urodeles and caecilians are the extant representatives of the clade Lissamphibia. Nowadays, lissamphibians are widely distributed in all continents, except Antarctica, but are particularly diversified in South America, where almost 3,000 species are found. This huge biodiversity is directly related to the complex geologic history of South America, which includes key events like the Gondwanan breakup, its isolation during parts of Mesozoic and Cenozoic, the Andean uplift, and the formation of the Panamá isthmus. Here, we present the most comprehensive bibliographic review of fossil lissamphibians from South America to date, covering unpublished (e.g. theses and dissertations) and published data (i.e. peer-reviewed scientific papers, book chapters, monographs, and conferences abstracts). We use a mixed approach, both qualitative (with brief comments on each taxon and specimen) and quantitative (including scientometric parameters). Compared to the latest published reviews with similar scope, our results indicate that approximately 85.4% of the records correspond to specimens new to science or older ones that have been revisited. These materials come from 164 different fossil-bearing localities, spread over eight of the twelve South American countries, and range from the Early Jurassic to the Quaternary. In total, we compile 273 records, mostly anurans (~97.6%), followed by indeterminate caecilians (~1.4%) and urodeles (~1%). Additionally, we discuss issues directly related to those fossil occurrences, such as their temporal and geographic range, as well as the presence of putative biological and taphonomic biases. Finally, we also provide calibration constraints for several anuran taxa.
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We thank Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da USP, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (USP), and Universidade Federal do ABC for logistical support. We thank the funding provided by São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP Proc 2020/07997-4; 2019/24466-5; 2019/14153-0; 2017/04849-1 for LAB), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (88887.596134/2020-00 for ROS, and 88887.507806/2020-00 for LAB). This work was also partially supported by the CAPES–Finance Code 001. ROS is particularly grateful to José Roberto da Cunha Nobre (in memorian), who first introduced him to the wonders of science. We thank R. Bantim (MPSC) for graciously providing information and photos of specimens from Araripe Basin. We are indebted to the Palaeoartist Gabriel Teófilo-Guedes who created the interpretative life-reconstitutions in Fig. 5. We are also indebted to D. Almeida-Silva (UFABC) and Janice Jarosi who revised an early version of this manuscript, on language and systematics, and Agustín Martinelli (MACN) who provided information on the holotype of Uberabatrachus carvalhoi. Furthermore, we are deeply grateful to the reviewers James Gardner (RTMP) and Raúl O. Gómez (UBA) for providing references and details about localities and fossil occurrences, as well as for their suggestions that substantially improved this manuscript. We dedicate this work to Ana María Báez (UBA), for her inestimable contribution to the study of fossil lissamphibians in South America.
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AMNH American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA; AMU-CURS Colección de Paleontología de Vertebrados de la Alcaldía de Urumaco, Estado Falcón, Venezuela; BAR Asociacion Paleontologica Bariloche, San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina; BMNH Natural History Museum, London, England; CIC Centro de Investigaciones Científicas, Viedma, Rio Negro, Argentina; CORD-PZ Museo de Paleontologia of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina; CPBA Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; CP-Bar Asociacion Paleontologica Bariloche, San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina; CPPLIP Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas Llewellyn Ivor Price, Minas Gerais, Brazil; DGM Divisão de Geologia e Mineralogia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; DNPM Departamento Nacional de Produção Mineral, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; FCEN−PV Vertebrate Palaeontology, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; FMNH P Paleontological Collection, The Field Museum, Chicago, USA; GHUNLPam Cátedra de Geología Histórica y Regional de la Faculdad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Argentina; GP Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; IBIGEO-P Colección Paleontología Instituto de Bio y Geociencias del Noroeste Argentino, Rosario de Lerma, Argentina; IANIGLA.PV Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales, Vertebrate Paleontology, Mendoza, Argentina; KUVP Paleontology collection, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, USA; LIEB-PV Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Evolución y Biodiversidad, Paleovertebrados, Universidad de la Patagonia “San Juan Bosco” sede Esquel, Chubut, Argentina; MACN Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires; MBC Museu de Biodiversidade do Cerrado, Uberlândia, Brazil; MCN-PUCMG Museu de Ciências Naturais da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; MCNC-PV Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales “Dr. Arturo U. Illia,” Córdoba, Argentina; MCN-SCB-UFPR Museu de Ciências Naturais of Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil; MD-CH Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales ‘Carlos Darwin,’ Arroyo Chasicó collection, Punta Alta, Argentina; MDJ Museu Diocesano Dom José, Sobral, Brazil; MHNC Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d'Orbigny de Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia; MJHG Museo Naturalístico, Antropológico e Histórico "Jorge Gerhold", Ingeniero Jacobacci, Río Negro, Argentina; MLG Museo del Lago Gutierrez “Dr. Rosendo Pascual”, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina; MLP Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina; MMH Museo de Ciencias Naturales ‘Vicente Di Martino’, Monte Hermoso, Argentina; MML Museo Municipal de Lamarque Rio Negro, Neuquén, Argentina; MMP Museo Municipal de Ciencias Naturales ‘Lorenzo Scaglia’, Mar del Plata, Argentina; MMS Museo Municipal de Salto ‘José Bonaparte’, Salto, Argentina; MN Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MNHN Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; MPEF Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Argentina; MPM-PV Museu Regional Provincial “Padre Manuel Jesús Molina”, Río Gallegos, Argentina; MPSC Museu de Paleontologia de Santana do Cariri, Santana do Cariri, Brazil; MUCPv Museo de Geología y Paleontología de la Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Sección Paleontología de Vertebrados, Neuquén, Argentina; MZUSP Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; PVL Paleontología de Vertebrados, Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina; PVSJ Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina; RTMP, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada; SGO.PV Paleontología de Vertebrados, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago, Chile; UERN PV Vertebrate paleontology collection, Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia Animal, Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Mossoró, Brazil; UF University of Florida, Gainesville, USA; UFAC Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil; UFC Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil; UFRJ-DG Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Departamento de Geologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; ZUFABC Coleção Zoológica, Universidade Federal do ABC, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.
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Barcelos, L.A., dos Santos, R.O. The Lissamphibian Fossil Record of South America. Palaeobio Palaeoenv 103, 341–405 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-022-00536-0
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